Sentences with phrase «idea of the new culture»

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Here's how Popova describes her mission: «In order for us to truly create and contribute to culture, we have to be able to connect countless dots, to cross-pollinate ideas from a wealth of disciplines, to combine and recombine these ideas and build new ideas.»

The idea that running a company could be a vehicle for social change has been part of Vermont's business culture at least since the 1940s, when a New Yorker named Lyman Wood moved to Burlington and founded Garden Way, a mail - order gardening supply business.

When the culture of an organization values learning, especially reading, it reflects a willingness to learn and change minds, to be open to new ideas and concepts that may indeed bolster both personal and professional endeavors.

Through a global network of physical LOFT labs, we have built environments where teams discover, incubate, and accelerate work on new technologies, products / services, and processes in a fail - fast culture where every idea is given a fighting chance to succeed.

Today one needs to have certain ideas on hand, certain political and social habits of mind, in order to be part of the in - crowd, as Whit Stillman captured so perfectly in Metropolitan, his study of the changed elite culture in New York at the end of the 1970s.

Thus the Commission called for a Christian concern for Higher Education which helps critical rational and humanist evaluation of both the western and Indian cultures to build a new cultural concept which subordinated religious traditions, technology and politics to personal values according to the principle «Sabbath is made for man and not man for the Sabbath», enunciated by Jesus and illustrated in the idea of Incarnation of God in Christ.

In this column we hope to chronicle some of the statements and initiatives that, by the grace of God and in accordance with ideas articulated by the Second Vatican Council, are aimed at the «New Evangelisation» of our culture.

The new president made a great many promises regarding the direction of our culture — his entire campaign was built around the idea that he could «make America great again.»

This difference is an extremely important one to note for the simple reason that the ideas of the new reformers enjoy an increasing appeal» their notions about moral agency and the nature of the moral life cohering so well with the views about these matters that now are characteristic of American culture.

Humanism, Reformation, Counter-Reformation — these may stand for the forceful uprush of new ideas, which, with some unfortunate accompaniments, shaped a new world and inspired a new culture of which we became the heirs.

And through all this came the emergence of the idea of a new Kerygma, a new way of proclaiming the Gospel to people who, living in a culture formed by centuries of Christianity, had nevertheless lost all effective contact with the Church.

1) Copenhagen demonstrated that global governance has overreached itself; 2) The crisis provokes a shift away from idealistic globalism, back to pragmatic concerns; 3) «Global consensus» established by «experts» is not and has never been genuine; 4) The institutions of global governance prove unable to resolve their identity crisis and to reform themselves; they are fragmented; 5) Global governance pays the bill for not taking into account non-western cultures and civilisations; 6) Displaying an incapacity to provide real leadership, produce a vision for the world, new ideas / ideologies, global governance opts for a survival approach.

This world of ours is a new world, in which the unity of knowledge, the nature of human communities, the order of society, the order of ideas, the very notions of society and culture have changed and will not return to what they have been in the past.

«This world of ours is a new world,» wrote Robert Oppenheimer in 1963, «in which the unity of knowledge, the nature of human communities, the order of society, the order of ideas, the very notions of society and culture have changed and will not return to what they have been in the past» (Saturday Review of Literature, June 29, 1963, p. 11).

TV is the dominant releasing force, revealing new worlds of ideas and peoples and cultures.

It should also be pointed out that, in the areas to which Islam spread, the termination of one chapter of existence and the beginning of the new Islamic culture, with all that this change entailed in the forming of new relationships and acceptance of basic ideas, restored the vigor and revived the energies of nations which had been weighed down by age and tradition.

«We have a warm culture with a lot of support and encouragement to try new things and suggest ideas,» Vice President of Marketing Stephanie Krause says.

As a new mum with a love of art and design, and an avid explorer of world cultures, I was immediately captivated by the idea of creating beautiful books for children that celebrated diversity and imagination.

From the time when the Columbine school shooting rocketed through the news, to now when cry - it - out sleep training is being openly debated rather than just merely accepted as the norm — reflecting the huge change we, as a culture, are having on the idea of relationship — there was 1 or 2 generations of individuals who were transitioning from the «old» way of relating — hierarchical and fear - based authority — to this «new» way: collaborative, emotionally literate, and focused on problem - solving.

By changing economic opportunities, requiring people to move away from home to find work and (allied to new technologies) making information and ideas available easily to people without their having to go anywhere, globalisation also facilitated the renewal of national and regional cultures and furthered the visibility and acceptance of, for example, diverse sexualities.

«Some of them have been small, others large, but together they have turned the party inwards rather than outwards, looking to the past rather than to new ideas, resting on easy rhetoric rather than taking hard decisions — and above all seeking to distance ourselves from our time in government, rather than building on it, in terms of both policy content and political culture and dynamic.»

This was no surprise to outside observers, as DECC struggled to forge a new departmental culture and move beyond the inertia of incumbent interests and engrained ideas.

«There is, I believe, a deeply corrupt political culture in New York, an acceptance of the idea that you go into politics to get favors and do favors and a deep, deep, deep cynicism in Albany and culture,» said Teachout, who is teaching a course this semester on political corruption in the state.

Such a move would have a profound impact on the unique languages and cultures including Pacific islanders — and in the Marshalls, locals have been talking about new ideas and phenomena as they've seen the preliminary effects of a changing climate on their coasts.

His idea was to create a new way of stimulating scientific innovation in Spain such that it steered clear of the civil servant culture that plagued the country.

So there's this kind of gee - whiz stage of it, and then you also see those ideas seeping into the theories, disproving some, suggesting that others are on the right track, proving some even; and those theories, in turn, incorporate principles, new laws of nature, new principles of nature that will, I think, inform our broader culture.

A lot of research supports the idea that teaching is crucial for the evolution of culture (New Scientist, 20 November 2010, p 38), but cooperative breeding helps to explain why humans are so particularly good at it compared with the other apes.

This philosophy is reflected in the institution's unique culture which avoids rigid departments and tenure, and instead embraces a highly collaborative research environment with a constant flow of new ideas and people.

We are open to new ideas and take risk to engage new paradigms and cause growth; maintain a «Culture of Accomplishment»; seek opportunities for individual growth, development and learning; encourage cross training, education and self - development; validate efficiencies and drive process improvement; manage «stress» responsibly

In recent years, popular culture has embraced the idea of the TV date night: the idea that binge watching a new show together is the height of romance.

The idea of an older woman dating a younger guy isn't exactly a new revelation; it's a dynamic that's featured across multiple cultures for centuries gone by.

As much time is spent on their story arc as any other, which does occasionally blur the thematic resonance of the story to be more about the new culture of India vs. the traditional class and matchmaking structure, but one can also read into this the angle that India, like the building and its residents, is an old country that must also find new life through new ideas, not getting stuck in old ways of thinking at the cost of growth.

The idea of jumping into a new culture with filmmakers from all over the world sounded exactly like what I needed.

The country is opening up to new ideas and new leaders, but even today «Midnight Cowboy» would provide a measure of culture shock.

Though best film winner «Get Out» was technically released by Universal, the $ 4.5 million project was a long - gestating original idea from a new filmmaker whose sensibilities synched up with the desires of a progressive culture (and it was produced outside of the studio's clutches).

A pictorial PowerPoint presentation that looks at the indianisation of Southeast Asia: when, how and where it occurred; what aspects of Indian culture were transmitted; and how did Southeast Asian societies adapt the new ideas to suit themselves.

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«This new edition of Transforming School Culture provides a rich and insightful set of ideas, strategies, and concepts that will help any school leader transform their cultures.

Schools that cultivate a culture of innovation empower teachers to test out new approaches, ideas, and lesson strategies — and that can lead to better engagement and increased efficiencies in the classroom.

However, as we all know, the school culture must be set around self - improvement and developing others, not just about creating schemes of work, marking, writing reports and data entry / analysis, otherwise the additional energy will be wasted on «spinning the hamster» wheel, not generating new ideas and improving opportunities for all.

Here are some ideas to cultivate the five strengths that are most connected with happiness: Curiosity Try a new cuisine and eat food of a different culture.

Beyond just putting tools into the hands of teachers and students, they have also crafted the greater school community's culture to welcome new ideas, techniques, and pedagogies, so that all stakeholders benefit and share the meaningful use of technology in their schools.

Chris has conducted workshops on ELA and Social Studies integration, harnessing nature - based metaphors to elicit new ideas in school leadership, reigniting creativity to combat the culture of testing, data and evaluation and UbD best practice.

Instead, he advocates that leaders develop a «culture of change» that fosters the «capacity to seek, critically assess, and selectively incorporate new ideas and practices.»

The K — 12 system needs to evolve into a culture whereby leaders, teachers, and students can feel comfortable in exploring new ideas and can even fail — without fear of reprimand — and learn from such mistakes.

Other elements of a learning culture, such as reflection and openness to new ideas also play a part.

As a young man, delving into Schwartz's life with only a partial idea of what he was doing, Atlas was nonetheless able to meet many of his fast - vanishing heroes from the New York literary world who had inspired him to become a critic in the first place: Philip Rahv, Dwight Macdonald, Alfred Kazin — giants who held sway over American culture in a bygone, arguably more literate age.

His contribution to the literary world earned him a gold medal from Congress (1960), as it enriched the culture of the United States and added new ideas to the...